AFP - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi gave a speech to 100 young Italian women recruited by a model agency and urged them to convert to Islam, newspapers reported on Monday.The young women selected for Kadhafi's speech in Rome late Sunday each had to be at least 1.70 metres (five feet seven inches) be "pleasant" and "well dressed" but low cut tops and mini-skirts were banned, the newspapers said.Each woman was paid between 50 and 60 euros and was hired by the Hostessweb agency, the reports said.The women were told to got to a luxury hotel in the Via Veneto, without knowing why, and were then taken in buses to the Libyan ambassador's residence. Kadhafi is in Rome for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) summit.The leader of the Libyan revolution arrived one hour late at 10:30pm to the amazement of the women who had expected a party rather than a lesson on the history of relations between Islam and the West and the role of women.
AFP - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi gave a speech to 100 young Italian women recruited by a model agency and urged them to convert to Islam, newspapers reported on Monday.
The young women selected for Kadhafi's speech in Rome late Sunday each had to be at least 1.70 metres (five feet seven inches) be "pleasant" and "well dressed" but low cut tops and mini-skirts were banned, the newspapers said.
Each woman was paid between 50 and 60 euros and was hired by the Hostessweb agency, the reports said.
The women were told to got to a luxury hotel in the Via Veneto, without knowing why, and were then taken in buses to the Libyan ambassador's residence. Kadhafi is in Rome for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) summit.
The leader of the Libyan revolution arrived one hour late at 10:30pm to the amazement of the women who had expected a party rather than a lesson on the history of relations between Islam and the West and the role of women.
Known for his quirkiness, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi may have outdone himself this week. In Italy for a global hunger summit, the colonel requested hundreds of "beautiful girls from all of Italy," saying he wanted to "exchange views." They got a Koran for their trouble. When it comes to quirkiness, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has set the bar high. Should he wish to grace the headlines, it is no longer enough for him to arrive on foreign visits with his gaggle of female bodyguards and his Bedouin tent. But in his narcissism, Gadhafi is nothing if not inventive. In Rome for a United Nations summit on global hunger, Gadhafi has come up with an ingenious plan to liven up his evenings. Last week, according to the Italian newswire Ansa, an Italian agency began looking for hundreds of "beautiful girls from all of Italy" at the behest of the Libyan dictator. According to the advertisement, they were to be "cute, between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 feet 7 inches) and well dressed. No mini-skirts or cleavage." Gadhafi, the advertisement went on, wanted to "exchange views" with the young women and "honor them" the Libyan way. For their trouble, the women were to get €50 ($75) and a Koran.
Known for his quirkiness, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi may have outdone himself this week. In Italy for a global hunger summit, the colonel requested hundreds of "beautiful girls from all of Italy," saying he wanted to "exchange views." They got a Koran for their trouble.
When it comes to quirkiness, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has set the bar high. Should he wish to grace the headlines, it is no longer enough for him to arrive on foreign visits with his gaggle of female bodyguards and his Bedouin tent.
But in his narcissism, Gadhafi is nothing if not inventive. In Rome for a United Nations summit on global hunger, Gadhafi has come up with an ingenious plan to liven up his evenings.
Last week, according to the Italian newswire Ansa, an Italian agency began looking for hundreds of "beautiful girls from all of Italy" at the behest of the Libyan dictator. According to the advertisement, they were to be "cute, between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 feet 7 inches) and well dressed. No mini-skirts or cleavage." Gadhafi, the advertisement went on, wanted to "exchange views" with the young women and "honor them" the Libyan way. For their trouble, the women were to get €50 ($75) and a Koran.
A group of 70 daredevils have broken the world record for the greatest number of people to skydive in formation wearing wingsuits. They jumped from four separate aircraft at 13,000ft before flying their way into a complex diamond-shaped pattern at over 100mph for two miles. Hundreds of spectators gathered at Lake Elsinore in California, America, to watch them beat the record before they broke formation to deploy their parachutes and land safely. British daredevil Mark "Birdman" Harris, who has completed more than 6,000 skydives and 600 wingsuit dives, said they have taken a "massive step forward". Harris, 33, said: "This was a massive step forward from last year and I can only imagine what next year will be like.
They jumped from four separate aircraft at 13,000ft before flying their way into a complex diamond-shaped pattern at over 100mph for two miles.
Hundreds of spectators gathered at Lake Elsinore in California, America, to watch them beat the record before they broke formation to deploy their parachutes and land safely.
British daredevil Mark "Birdman" Harris, who has completed more than 6,000 skydives and 600 wingsuit dives, said they have taken a "massive step forward".
Harris, 33, said: "This was a massive step forward from last year and I can only imagine what next year will be like.
U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land directed the U.S. attorney to collect $20,000 in sanctions from "birther" attorney Orly Taitz the day after her deadline passed to pay the money.Land's Friday order and judgment stem from a Sept. 17 motion Taitz filed on behalf of former client Capt. Connie Rhodes, who sought to stop her deployment to Iraq on arguments that President Barack Obama couldn't legitimately hold office. Land told Taitz the previous day that she could face sanctions if she ever again filed another "frivolous" suit in his court. When Taitz filed the motion for emergency stay, Land gave Taitz two weeks to explain why he shouldn't sanction her $10,000.On the deadline, Taitz, who no longer represented the captain, responded with a motion to recuse Land from the case and a request to extend her deadline. In his 43-page order, Land lays out a timeline of Taitz's actions in his court, discusses why her numerous court filings were frivolous and addresses point-by-point her arguments for why he should be recused from the case. He also increased the original sanction by another $10,000 and gave her until Thursday to pay. California attorney Orly Taitz, the president of the Defend Our Freedoms Foundation, stands on the steps of the Federal Courthouse in Columbus Friday with what she claims is a copy of a birth certificate for President Barak Obama from Mombass, British Protectorate of Kenya. Taitz represents U.S. Army Capt. Connie Rhodes in a civil complaint filed Friday questioning the country of Obama's birth and his eligibility to be president. > "The United States attorney is authorized and directed to collect the judgment as provided by law," Land's Friday order states
U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land directed the U.S. attorney to collect $20,000 in sanctions from "birther" attorney Orly Taitz the day after her deadline passed to pay the money.
Land's Friday order and judgment stem from a Sept. 17 motion Taitz filed on behalf of former client Capt. Connie Rhodes, who sought to stop her deployment to Iraq on arguments that President Barack Obama couldn't legitimately hold office. Land told Taitz the previous day that she could face sanctions if she ever again filed another "frivolous" suit in his court. When Taitz filed the motion for emergency stay, Land gave Taitz two weeks to explain why he shouldn't sanction her $10,000.
On the deadline, Taitz, who no longer represented the captain, responded with a motion to recuse Land from the case and a request to extend her deadline. In his 43-page order, Land lays out a timeline of Taitz's actions in his court, discusses why her numerous court filings were frivolous and addresses point-by-point her arguments for why he should be recused from the case. He also increased the original sanction by another $10,000 and gave her until Thursday to pay.
California attorney Orly Taitz, the president of the Defend Our Freedoms Foundation, stands on the steps of the Federal Courthouse in Columbus Friday with what she claims is a copy of a birth certificate for President Barak Obama from Mombass, British Protectorate of Kenya. Taitz represents U.S. Army Capt. Connie Rhodes in a civil complaint filed Friday questioning the country of Obama's birth and his eligibility to be president.
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"The United States attorney is authorized and directed to collect the judgment as provided by law," Land's Friday order states
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<waves> En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
